And it’s only one study. There is a chance they the results were tainted somehow.

I don’t doubt that. I also don’t want to deny a service member a knife. I carry one and think it’s pretty fucking handy.

My first point is that a serviceable utilitarian fixed-blade knife is in the $30-$50 range. With the service-member markup that is not anywhere near $300.

My second point is that buying a tool is about meeting the utilitarian need first. Maybe an entry level knife might not hold up as well as a mid-range of the same design, but as the price goes up, you are getting diminishing returns on utility. It might be off an assembly line, but anything over $50 is still a luxury.

Our ideas of luxury costs are significantly misaligned. I made do with a cheap $25 multi-tool until I got a skeletool for a Christmas present. Why other way is considered out of reach for me.

Look, if I could get it to you for cost I would.

May be with your time to move your work stuff over to a used business-class machine. You can sometimes find them on the cheap at auction or whatever. My current batch was acquired for a song. If you live anywhere near Cincinnati Ohio I can get you one for extra cheap. I’d rather take the talk to DM, though.

If you are doing word merges or something and need to have a standardized load then you are kind of locked on there. We aren’t all lucky enough to have an in house team that will build a one-off app to do whatever.

Extra-stuck if it is postage or banking related.

Now, if it was a home PC, then the Windows tax is making less and less sense.

So professionally, if you include a document searchable online and maybe it’s clear that you both made the document and use no Windows computers but somehow still included these fonts then there might be a case, but I think it would be difficult to pursue and would probably not be considered as the original intent was to put these fonts out in the wild.

Again, IDK. I’m not a lawyer and don’t pay for one. My suggestion is to avoid the grey areas unless you are prepared to fight.

Uhh, maybe on initial setup. I haven’t played in a month or so and just launched it in two clicks.

You can snag the fonts folder directly from a windows install under C:\Windows\Fonts

You can also download them from Soulseek assuming I’m online (which I am not currently) and probably other locations (but be safe about it of course).

I don’t have a problem with either of these on a personal level, and you might be fine copying the folder as long as you own the copy of Windows. Professionally, Microsoft might actually have a case that you are using their fonts outside of their agreement.

Also, unless you can get a proper license from Soulseek (or wherever) that limits your liability, you are probably in the same boat.

Just make sure that you don’t mix business with a personal machine if you do this. I am not a lawyer, but I am in IT. Fonts are a source of aggressive litigation lately, so I’m only suggesting you be careful or find a proper alternative. I would treat any gray area professionally as a possible breach of terms. I think the real take-away is that unless you really need it you can do without it.

Nobody can but the companies that make it. Mostly due to kernel level anticheat (which you shouldn’t install on windows either tbh). Some games like Destiny run fine but they just ban your acct for playing on linux, it isn’t linux that is the problem, it’s Bungie (etc).

I agree completely. Something something played us for fools.

Luanti is great, but since the topic is about switching to Linux I feel the need to point out that Minecraft Java has been running on Linux I think from the very beginning. I use prism launcher when the kids feel like playing. The setup is more complicated than using the official Linux launcher, but it is more stable.

I guess this is bait, but I installed LibreOffice explicitly to test compatibility recently. I was able to make the same Word document in both. I opened the LibreOffice doc in word.com and the only reason it was different was fonts. It did look fine in print preview. Excel functions and VBA both worked in simple tests. Bonus points for functioning on the 18 year old test system. If your argument is that LibreOffice looks like ass, then I agree.

Now, if you can’t let Windows go because of Roblox or Apex, I can’t help you. All of my Steam games work, and I have games in Epic and GOG launcher. Sometimes I have to click options and select a different proton, but that has not been an issue since upgrading from my 10 year old video card to something new.

Can’t just roll over. Got to keep some kind of edge.

It’s very rare I don’t finish what I started. If I won’t eat it, nobody else will. It would go to the trash.

How Old is their vehicle?

All that garbage is still there, under the slop, under the Reddit and other promoted answers. It’s just another layer on top of what we were actually looking for.

Buy a SAS adapter and put them in an external storage rack.

This hardware is for those who are storing EB of data.

Responding to make the post more popular.

Good luck Margo.

Our beager (beagle boxer) Della has the same energy. Short, squat, and dense

It makes more sense to co-opt and bastardize the existing religion than to demonize it. Nazi party created a whole spirituality by cutting and patching together whatever religious bits fit their narrative.